John Hamre (2016) was elected president and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in January 2000. CSIS is a non-partisan research institute with emphasis on international relations and foreign policy. Before joining CSIS, he served as the 26th U.S. deputy secretary of defense, and earlier as the undersecretary of defense (comptroller) from 1993 to 1997. In 2007, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates appointed Dr. Hamre to serve as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a post he held under Secretaries Leon Panetta and Ashton Carter. Before serving in the Department of Defense, Dr. Hamre worked for ten years as a professional staff member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and earlier he served in the Congressional Budget Office, where he became its deputy assistant director for national security and international affairs. Dr. Hamre received his Ph.D., with distinction, in 1978 from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, DC, where his studies focused on international politics and economics and U.S. foreign policy.
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